1. (Botanique) Cirre. Les vrilles de la vigne.
2. Outil ŕ percer le bois.
3. (Aéronautique) Configuration de voltige. Se mettre en vrille.
ETYM Old Eng. augoure, nauger, AS. nafegâr, from nafu, nafa, nave of a wheel + gâr spear, and therefore meaning properly and originally a nave-bore. Related to Nave (of a wheel) and Gore.
(Homonym: augur).
Hand tool for boring holes; SYN. gimlet, screw auger, wimble.
Hand-tool with corkscrew-shaped bit used for boring holes in wood; larger tool for boring holes in ground.
Tool for boring holes. In archeology a large auger is used to collect sediment and soil samples below ground without hand excavation, or to determine the depth and type of archeological deposits. The auger may be hand-or machine-powered.
1. One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril.
2. One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.
3. One of a pair of male copulatory organs, developed on the anterior side of the ventral fins of sharks and other elasmobranchs. See Illust. of Chimra.
1. Tordu.
2. Enroulé.